Two Acquisitions of Note
Saw both of these on ComputerWorld:
Oracle buying BEA
Sun buying MySQL
It'll be interesting to see how this changes the...
2008-01-16
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Blog Posts
Upcoming Presentations
I'll be attending the South Florida Code Camp on Feb 2 and also SQLSaturday Tampa on Feb 16th. For both...
2008-01-16
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Covert It Live
I watch the Geekbrief update a few times a week, partially to see new gadgets and partially to see how...
2008-01-15
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SQL Server 2005 Replication bug?
Last week, in our production, we noticed some records are missing in the subscriber side while existing on the publisher...
2008-01-15
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E-Readers, Will They Ever Take Off?
I was discussing the Kindle recently with business partner Steve Jones and while we both like the idea of having...
2008-01-14
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Hot Subtract
Over the last few weeks I've seen a few posts about the new Hot-Add CPU feature in SQL Server 2008....
2008-01-14
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Evaluating Speakers at Events
Speakers tend to live for the evals. Hopefully it's a validation of work done well after a lot of time...
2008-01-09
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On the Importance of Documentation...
It seems that I keep inheriting old systems that provide a singular, albeit mission critical, function to their owners. In...
2008-01-09
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Sometimes You Need an Analog Solution, Sorta - Earth Class Mail
Spotted this on the Webware feed, Earth Class Mail is a service that opens and scans your regular mail so...
2008-01-09
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SQL Injection, Again!
Many posts including this one about as many as 70,000 sites being hacked using SQL injection and a vulnerability in...
2008-01-09
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Blogs
Finding fields used in a Power BI report in PBIR format with Semantic Link Labs
Have you ever wondered where a certain field is used in a report? Or...
Adding Test data to msdb.sysjobhistory
By Steve Jones
One of our internal people was looking to test some process in (I assume)...
Microsoft Ignite Announcements Nov 2024
By James Serra
Announced at Microsoft Ignite last week were some new product features related to the...
Forums
Import data from json file with special characters
I am using the following script to import data from a json file. This...
% processor Time in Activity monitor is greyed out
When I connect to my SQL Server using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) from...
Tools for MySQL memory estimations and optimization?
Hi all! I’ve been using MySQLCalculator.com for memory calculations, but I’m looking for alternatives...
Question of the Day
The Hash Join II
Which of these inputs is the smaller input to a hash join?
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